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Campus Traditions:
Best Common Reading A spirit of intellectual adventure is established early at Florida Southern College by engaging incoming freshman in a "common reading" this year, The Life of Pi by Yan Martel. The engaging plot and complex yet accessible protagonist in Life of Pi stimulated community discussion and debate while providing glimpses into different cultures and religions and opportunities for them to explore the life experiences that marked their own coming of age.

Campus Block Parties:
Best Hurricane Celebration To re-establish a sense of community and restart the semester after three hurricanes disrupted classes and closed the campus, Florida Southern College celebrated the students' return and their gracious spirit amidst the chaos of the hurricanes with a surprise picnic. Faculty, students and staff enjoyed camaraderie, comfort food from Sonny's Bar-B-Q, Olive Garden pastas, and Ben & Jerry's ice cream. Everyone in attendance received an FSC tee-shirt.

Volunteerism:
Best Athlete Volunteers For a college with 24 NCAA 24 NCAA Division II national Championships to its credit, pre-season practice has always been a high priority, until Hurricane Charlie. After Charlie struck Polk County where Florida Southern College is located, the men's and women's soccer and volleyball teams helped maintenance staff with massive campus clean-up. The men's soccer team pulled extra duty unloading cases of bottled water at the FEMA distribution center at Lakeland Linder Airport.

Signature Program #1: Discount program
The Commuter Meal Program is a program that subsidizes meals at the on-campus cafeteria. This program has as an overall goal to increase the commuter integration into a very residential campus. Currently, the program is being subsidized with LUSG funds, but the Commuter Club is being established as organization which will take this issue upon themselves in the future. Also, the Commuter Club will deal directly with commuter issues such as keeping them informed of on-campus events as well as forming a social group for normally isolated commuters.

Signature Program #2: Leadership courses
The Colloquiums are events where LUSG, in partnership with the Center for Development of Christian Leadership, hosts discussions on controversial topics. Usually, 3 known speakers on the subject come in to defend their stand. Usually, they represent two extreme stands and one middle stand. Each speaker presents their main point in 15 minutes. Sequentially, each speaker offers critiques on the others' points and has the opportunity to defend after the critique is made on his point. After the positions are viewed, students are able to ask questions to panel members. Some topics discussed in the past have included Copyright laws in digital media, US Involvement in Iraq, & Old-Age Earth vs. Literal 7 Day Creation.

Signature Program #3: Campus block parties
STOMP - Student Organization Mall Party This event happens at the beginning of the academic year. LUSG, in partnership with the YellowJacket Activities Council, sponsors an event where dinner is served on the central mall in campus. All organizations are invited to participate in order to increase the awareness of the student organizations on campus. Organizations run booths with activities to engage the students. Last year, more than 35 student organizations participated and there was a dunking booth, a climbing wall, spacewalks, and many other interesting activities.

ASNAU-Sponsored Programs
23 Fee Spring Concert
The ’23 Fee’ spring concert is a concert that is voted on by the students. There is no charge to go, and tickets are available until they run out. Past concerts have been, Macklemore, All American Rejects, Ellie Goulding, Wiz Khalifa, Ke$ha, The Band Perry, Ludacris and Blink 182.


Carnival
Every October ASNAU presents a free of charge carnival for NAU students and faculty. The carnival is host to numerous rides, attractions, and food vendors.


Diversity Week
Diversity Week is an event featuring various speakers, performances, and information sessions aimed to focus on the experiences of marginalized peoples and identities in our society. The purpose of this week is to increase awareness for those who do not always have a platform or voice on campus. This event is also for the promotion of learning and acceptance from within the campus community. Diversity Week covers topics such as: body positivity, LGBTQIAP + identities, students or people with disabilities, racial and ethnic diversity, women’s rights, intersectionality, and much more.


It’s On Us Week
It’s On Us week brings educational awareness to the epidemic of sexual assault on college campuses and nation wide. We create a safe environment for students to ask questions and receive information about resources NAU provides on campus or in the Flagstaff community.


Kiss My Axe T-shirts
Every year students are given the opportunity to vote on the Kiss My Axe shirt, the shirt is free to all students, and gives students a way to show their spirit all year long.

1. Volunteerism
The Student Leadership and Volunteer Committee (SLIC) is a new signature program this semester. It was created with the goal of coordinating and planning community service projects across the campus community. Currently there are several clubs and organizations that participate in service projects but the projects are small and unorganized. SLIC aims to bring the various clubs together and allow them to work together to achieve better results in their various activities. This semester, SLIC aims to sponsor a Rebuilding Together house in the northwest Indiana area and bring over 40 volunteers together. Additionally, SLIC aims to sponsor multiple food drives in the northwest Indiana area.

2. Campus block parties
The Fine Arts, Convocations, and Events Committee (FACE) is in charge of planning student events on campus. Some past FACE events include bring musicians to campus, hosting winter semi-formal dances, and Pride Week festivities. These events are meant to provide students with fun activities in which to participate between classes. This is particularly important on a commuter campus such as PNC because there is little else to do between classes.

3. Campus traditions
The annual Honors Convocation is presented at the end of each spring semester. The convocation recognized those members of the PNC student body who have displayed various aspects of leadership. It also serves as the inauguration for the new Student Government.

1) Campus Block Parties
At the beginning of every academic year, we through a huge block party where we have a cook out, have at least 4-5 major attractions including wall climbing, sumo wrestling, basketball challenges, dunk tank... There is music and usually a local radio station.

2) Diversity Outreach
We have a very diverse campus and we try to celebrate all ethnicities by honoring them throughout the year. Most popularly, we have international food night around Thanksgiving where people bring dishes from their background and they get judged. We also celebrate black and women's history month. We have a Muslim Student Association. Diversity is what our campus is all about.

3) Campus Traditions
We have pep rallies every year. And we have certain events that we have every semester that the students line up for. Those include our bowling night, the pool tournament and fitness challenge, just to name a few.

Campus traditions
The activities fair is held anaully in the first week of the fall semester. The activites fair is an opportunity for students, especially first years, to get a taste for the types of clubs there are on campus. The event takes place on the main walk way of the school around lunch time so students see the event taking place as they walk by. Each club has a table and students walking by can sign up to be a apart of the club or just talk to current members of the club. This event does a good job of building a sense of community on campus and getting first year students involved in campus life.

Homecoming events
For homecoming we have a court comprised of seniors from different organizations. Sports teams, Greek organizations, and clubs can nominate someone by raising $200. The week before the homecoming football game the whole campus can vote for the king and queen. At half time of the football game the winners of the campus wide vote are crowned and so are the fundraising king and queen.

Campus block parties
Every May the student government holds a May Day concert. We book a band or dj and have a student group be the open act. this event is a lot of fun and brings the student body together for one last thing before finals start.

Source: SG Signature Programs Smart Form submitted by 16-17 Social Chair, Rachel Weil, on 6/26/16

1. Homecoming Events
SGA generally cosponsors events with organizations during homecoming, in an effort to subsidize the costs.

2. Campus Block Parties
We work with Student Activities Board to provide a block party for the students in the spring semester.

The school year kicks off with a potluck and games, like volleyball or a water balloon toss.